Kathy Burke: Money Talks

Much as I admire Kathy Burke for her plain speaking and down to earth point of view, this two hour long documentary stretched my patience. Hardly more than an extended rant, and lacking any sort of depth or proper analysis, this felt like lazy half-hearted effort from someone who confessed herself she was only doing it for the money.

It became especially wearing when she fell into the easy trap of blaming the Tory government for the existence of poor people - presumably the fact that poor people existed under a Labour government, and indeed under every government, didn't occur to her. No doubt she was paid extremely well for making this documentary, and perhaps next time, instead of pushing her own personal political agenda, she might want to delve a little deeper into her subject and this level of superficiality and lightweight content really does her no favours.